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10am - 3pm, Wednesday 29th June 2011
Main Library, University of Warwick

This Showcase, from the Learning and Development Centre, the Library and IATL, is open to anyone with an interest in the development of teaching. It will provide an opportunity to celebrate some of the excellent teaching and learning taking place at Warwick and will have the key theme of 'Teaching and Learning Post-Browne', to include:

• Interdisciplinarity
• Students as Producers
• Student Engagement
• Employability

Dr David Metcalfe, Founding Editor of Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research, has become IATL's first Associate Fellow, with key responsibilities including promotion of undergraduate research, mentoring interested undergraduates, and teaching research skills.

10am - 5pm, Monday 27 June 2011
University of Warwick

Registration has now closed as all places have been filled.

This free, one-day conference, open to academic staff, administrators and postgraduate students, will address the challenges of embedding creativity into teaching and learning in the HE sector across the disciplines. It will showcase the contribution to the debate of Warwick's Open-space Learning in Real World Contexts project - which aims to develop and embed new forms of creative pedagogy associated with workshop practice and collaborative learning in flexible learning spaces - featuring some of the key thinkers about creativity in education:

• Ron Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London, author of Being a University (2011)
• Jonathan Bate, University of Warwick, Founding Director of the CAPITAL Centre and, most recently, editor of The Public Value of the Humanities (2011)
• Jonothan Neelands, University of Warwick, Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School and Chair of Drama and Theatre Education
• Rob Pope, Oxford Brookes University, author of Creativity: Theory, History, Practice

6-8pm Thursday 9th June 2011
CAPITAL Studio (G.55), Millburn House

Following on from sucessful collaborative events such as 'Shakespeare on the Brain' and 'Beckett and the Brain' in 2009, this new project places medical students in dialogue with theatre artists in order to explore psychiatric practice. After recently attending the Clinical Skills Laboratory at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospital, we are organising this special event to bring together medical and artistic practitioners. This inter-disciplinary project is part of Open-Space Learning in Real World Contexts and our research questions are as follows:

1. Where is the intersection between psychiatry and performance?
2. How can we engage the medical community through performance events?
3. How do we use these events to engage academic departments in embodied pedagogies?
4. Can these pedagogical practices improve clinical skills?

Places are limited. To book, please email Amy dot Clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk.

IATL is proud to have supported the two Warwick entries at Scarborough this year with its Performance Festival bursaries: The Resisitible Rise of Arturo Ui and Five Kinds of Silence. The Resistible Rise picked up two prizes: Lizzie Drapper won the Lighting Design award and the band received the Cameron Mackintosh Commendation for Musicality. The Festgoers Award went to Five Kinds of Silence . Congratulations to all concerned.

Opening Spaces is a project co-ordinated by IATL with RSA Academy Tipton in which lead learners from the RSA Academy will work in collaboration with practitioners from Warwick to make recommendations for innovative educational use of learning spaces in the RSA Academy's new building. It follows the Re-Opening Minds project, which investigated the impact of the academy's unique 'Opening Minds' Key Stage 3 curriculum on those pupils who had recently made the transition from Key Stage 3 to a more traditional Key Stage 4 curriculum.

Paul Taylor, currently Co-Director of the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning, has been confirmed as Director from 1 August 2011.

Paul was Director of the Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research from 2008 to 2010 and is a Reader in Inorganic Chemistry, which he will combine with the Directorship of IATL.

Paul's academic interests are varied and include collaborative interdisciplinary projects both with Engineers and with Biologists. He teaches organic chemistry to undergraduate chemists with a particular focus on the practice of the subject. As Director of the Reinvention Centre, Paul was engaged in HEFCE-funded research into Teaching and Learning in a Research-rich Environment that involved collaborative research into Student Engagement. He is particulalry interested in research-led teaching and research-based learning and student involvement in all areas of University activity.

The winners of the three £100 Amazon vouchers were: Poppy Roberts from the Insititue of Clinical Education (week 1 of the questionnaire), Randeep Gill from WBS (week 2) and Oliver Wright from Philosophy (week 3).

IATL is looking for two Student Research Assistants to analyse the results of our survey of student engagement at the University. Each Research Assistant will be employed for 68 hours' work, between 4 April and 8 July, at the rate of £12.47 per hour.

You will be a second-, third- or fourth-year undergraduate with an interest in the social science of teaching and learning, competent in statistical methods, with experience of using SPSS or similar, and some experience of research.

Closing date for applications: 5pm on Monday 28 March.

 Further information and job description

"...the action of the play hopes to analyse why beauty makes us uncomfortable, how the ‘real’ world of news information works in relation to our own ‘irreal’ or sheltered lives, and what happens when these two worlds meet, turn sour, or become interminable."

Performances in the CAPITAL Studio, Millburn House, at 7.30pm on:

• Wed 16 March 2011
• Thu 17 March 2011
• Fri 18 March 2011
  

Reserve your place:
FatGitTheatre@googlemail.com